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Both Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer chose to address the Confederation of British Industry conference this week. But far more interesting than the party leaders’ paeans to profit or to
An interesting debate was opened by Labour’s MP for Neath, Christina Rees, in Parliament’s Westminster Hall last week on Italy’s “Marcora Law”. This is the legislation introduced there in 1985
see film clips of PEF Council members explaining the purpose of PEF’s new book, The Return of the State
On 29 March, while Brexit monopolised public attention, the ONS released a large amount of data that serves as an indictment of the UK economy.
Brexit represents the last gasp of the British empire. The men who have led it cannot accept that the colonial era, and the exploited wealth that came with it, is over.
Whether still a member of the European Union or in some other economic and political arrangement with Europe, a new government would inherit an unbalanced and stagnating economy.
PRIME Economics’ Co-Director writes on the accusation that ministers are holding Parliament in contempt for refusing to publish the full Brexit legal advice – is the Attorney General’s client the Government, or the public?
In the face of growing pressure to call time on public spending cuts, the Chancellor is using Brexit uncertainty as ideological cover for the continuation of austerity.
Engagement with the deeper reasons for Brexit is a necessary demonstration of respect for the electorate, absent from much of the pro-Brexit lobby. The attempt to undermine these efforts on grounds of being ‘patronising’ is a classic neoliberal tactic, with origins in (neoclassical) economics.
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